goodness. it's nineteen forty five told r.t. top call. in the movie. developments in libya tonight in the last few hours the head of the country's armed forces has declared immediate cease fire bit aerial attacks from a multinational coalition targeting gadhafi forces with dozens reported killed and . the arab league holds an emergency summit in climate they say signed up for a no fly zone that protect civilians and doesn't kill them join me please hear from to. moscow calls for an end to what it terms an indiscriminate use of force by foreign powers in libya and calls for military action to remain within the parameters of the u.n.

resolution. this is america says its role in a military intervention will be limited but that's not soft comparisons to the beginning of the two thousand and three iraq invasion. polls show the majority of americans opposed the u.s. involvement in the intervention for more on this joining bandaging check out in just a few minutes. hello this is r.t. it's eleven pm sunday night here in moscow my name's kevin owen and in the last few hours the libyan army has been ordered to observe an immediate cease fire in their fight against rebels it comes on the second day of an international aerial campaign against the troops of colonel gadhafi it's now been criticized by the arab league following reports the dozens of civilians have been killed but coalition forces say they're acting in line with the u.n. resolution which should receive widespread arab support artie's paula slayer joins

us now live from the libyan capital with the latest developments poor evening to you so a second ceasefire now there has just been called the first one of course was breached within hours what is the latest situation in tripoli just now i heard. gunfire over your shoulder. well kevin that's right as i'm talking to you there is and he thought the gunfire happening just a short distance behind me this is the second time in as many hours that we're witnessing this over the capital city of tripoli it's not quite clear why the government is firing we have seen no incoming fire so the understanding here is that it's might be a show of strength a sign of support for gadhafi now the cease fire announcement was certainly a surprise it was made at nine o'clock this evening local time by a government spokesperson he said that there would be an immediate ceasefire there hasn't been any reaction from the international community we don't think that there will be a reaction because certainly the previous announcement of the ceasefire by the

gadhafi regime did not carry that much weight and turned out to be quite meaningless now the arab league has been holding an emergency summit in cairo with the secretary general a most who says he's been misquoted he was quoted as saying that the arab league signed up for the no fly zone to protect civilians and not actually to kill them now whether or not there's been a misunderstanding because the latest word we have coming from this meeting is that the arab league is still involved in this no fly zone but it's so he was raising concerns about what is happening behind the scenes is that confusion or is there dissent within the ranks when you gauge the mood here on the ground what people very much are saying is that increasingly it looks like the that it's going to be a united arab emirates qatar and possibly jordan that will be coming forward but mostly in the in the same source they'll be footing the bill rather than participating in military strikes and this raises very real questions why are they doing this is it a genuine concern for the libyan people is it was this some kind of vendetta

against gadhafi is it not a weight to try and further entrenched the united states in this part of the region most people here who support and no fly zone would rather have seen countries like china zero and egypt neighboring countries come to the fore to help with those arab . democratic with illusion it's not particularly well comes in some circles that you have the united states in europe spear hitting the smooth barricade be happy and see aircraft fire as a statesman have rocked the night we still hear exactly why the government is doing that because it appears no incoming fire it's just it's wrong and i can see that it's a motorcycle and when you hear it they will no doubt be cause for eating on the streets behind me that was eating a very much a show of support of the gadhafi regime i do want to add though that state television throughout the day has been showing pictures of victims of these airstrikes they claim that more than sixty people have been killed he thinks he knows that just stop in fact as the foreign media we were invited to go to funerals

it's not clear though whether the funerals have been staged there is some suspicion that some of the pictures and that some of the people being buried are not directly related to the strikes that we've witnessed and last night toulouse talk about the coalition forces the official line from them today is that the initial stages of the airborne intervention has been a success despite international criticism oh what's next do you think on their agenda was going to happen there. look at some of the difficulty can you make sense you can hear this and see aircraft fire is happening behind me and people in front of me are starting to run most of the focus of the fighting today was in the city of misrata which is the third largest city here now behind me actually hear people screaming in the streets and we're hearing the same kind of sounds coming out of the city of misrata today difficult for us as journalists to go they will be prevented from reaching misrata full three weeks now but i witnessed as these saying that the tanks have rolled into the town seem to they were saying that the

gadhafi forces were going from house to house they claim to be anything they said it was the face of his intention to complete ranks wolf downtown office rasa the latest word though from the international forces is that british my feet and what made. planes have been st cheat and can't base in each week that means that there are only thirty minutes away from his they will be able to come here immediately if needed we are also hearing that just like the international community's announcement that it has managed to pete most of conduct these so it's a good defense missile systems he still has some remote mines and so the international community cannot waste on its laurels and assume that it's crossed over libyan airspace is free and is completely safe paul again just to remind you what we're hearing is a bully image the people running we have first of all is it safe for you to continue this interview if more please go i just want to ask you another question if i may i introduce a few to stay there what is sure feeling of the strength of support tonight for

colonel gadhafi to move the question and we were following up earlier on was do you think some of the people that have turned against gadhafi may be turning back towards him again because of this because of this allied intervention. kevin i do think that if people are turning their support back towards him it might not be because of the allied intervention i mean to some extent it might be nobody really wants to see foreign soldiers on the soil here and will vote the mission at the moment is limited in terms of what we hear into a no fly zone it will be no support if it's extended interests it's just to keep those who are feeding that concern will turn as a call back to gadhafi but i think people here are trying to express signs like this beyond just standing at this stage because we see no incoming fire being to show support for gadhafi he spoke he is making sure that his men and his supporters understand who is in control in this country and certainly who is in control here in the capital city of tripoli now behind me i do hear people shouting i do hear

cars heating is always a sense of confusion when this kind of gunfire erupts in the skies so the situation here in tripoli incredibly tense people are incredibly nervous and while we're hearing that the international community will soon be standing the french planes back here i suspect that in. coming hours we'll continue to hear these kind of sounds erupting from the skies ok paula keeps a phone keep updating us if you are too small or see it clear they were very latest from the capital tripoli. or first part moscow's called on coalition forces refrain from using indiscriminate force in libya are paid all of his outside russia's foreign ministry with that angle to the story the latest statement that's be released by the russian foreign ministry the ministry says that it's unacceptable for military force to be used for anything other than the protection of civilians in libya they also condemned what they see is the indiscriminate use of force by coalition there we can now be a part of that foreign ministry statement. we strongly call on the relevant states

to stop the indiscriminate use of force we believe it is unacceptable to use the mandate laid out in resolution one thousand nine hundred eighty three by the security council a passing of which was rather in u.s. for purposes which are obviously beyond its provisions which were to protect the peaceful population. continue to say that the foreign ministry here in moscow has received reports that dozens of civilians were killed and scores wounded in those attacks from the air and from boats from ships stationed in the mediterranean they also said that they've received information that nonmilitary targets being a hit in these attacks on saturday night these include a medical facility as well as roads and bridges now russia has been against the use of force by foreign powers in in the libya situation is repeatedly called for dialogue and not military intervention thirty lover of the russian

foreign minister is in the region at the moment this is part of a a double headed visits to see two of libya is very close neighbors to egypt and then to algeria well of course the it's inevitable that the situation in libya will play a part in not just the love of it was initially in those two countries to discuss bilateral trade and other talks between russia and egypt and algeria of course the with them bordering libya the situation in that country will be watched very very closely and inevitably as they say play a part in this the love visits of those two countries u.s. cruise missiles are of the leading edge of coalition operations in libya despite president obama promising america's role will be limited he also promised no u.s. ground forces will be deployed some are already pointing to similarities with the invasion of iraq in two thousand and three are things going to church or can reports next from washington. when you watch american television you get the

impression that america's involvement is a really good thing and that there was no other option but intervention but if you look at the polls the majority of americans oppose the u.s. involvement in this intervention fox news gives sixty five percent they're already on happy that their government is spending tax dollars in inconclusive wars in iraq and afghanistan and adding one more hot spot is the last thing they want efficiency or promise it's going to be a fast war obama said that there will be no u.s. troops on the ground oath of office military indeed is really no match for the capabilities of the coalition forces it took just hours to cripple his ear defenses the u.s. has launched missiles from its war ships and submarines in the mediterranean targeting and his air defense systems and clearing the sky to make sure it could out is not able to shoot down any planes of the coalition forces earlier french warplanes have carried out strikes or put out its ground forces there have been group words of civilian casualties caused by the attacks there are lots of

questions as to how long the operation is going to last also it was to the limits of the intervention enough of the coalition forces to just this storm could really go beyond that goal and what would be the outcome is it will change what those questions are those are the questions everybody is asking and the wording of the u.n. resolution that was absolute thursday is really all inclusive of occupation the official purpose of the intervention is protecting civilians from the dock is that packed with what everybody's talking about the greeks putting down properly so i do bombers and attacking his other military assets is one thing it was authorized by the resolution but arming the rebels for example is something very different egyptian military is shipping arms over the border can be given rebels in egypt and prisoner was very much influenced by washington the u.s. is very careful not to appear as the grinding force behind the military actions but fine now we know that the u.s. contribution is right centrally outweighs that of all the coalition forces combined

so it's really hard. asked to quote create the appearance of not being the leading force after the fact that president obama could not increase pay for latin america is also kind of an evil place in that sense when not to be seen as the man in chief of this whole thing so it was a very calculated the session kind of shit you kind of washington duffy's been launching attacks against his own citizens for weeks now killing hundreds of people but political analyst talks or are they all shallow told me foreign intervention could still turn public opinion in his favor. how long that will go an answer you know is very difficult to predict that will determine whether they can afford it probably does the reason why president obama says this is going to be days rather than weeks of months so i am very concerned that this will last much longer than the white house is portraying for why as you reason because they have to now merge together then we g.m. change when they say he has to leave and the limited u.n.

resolution where it clearly states reflection of the civilian forces knocking pace with force when there is foreign intervention people normally everywhere around the world they follow that and so forth don't go there to have their own bell but rather than somebody from the outside that we have to remember that we've got the is a. skilled many of his be all and have squandered its economy so he's not an angel it's a slow hanging fruit and that's why the western powers so we're encouraged to have to. go in the military and professional it's really unfortunate i have written many times against military intervention because the consequences beth and destroying the infrastructure of any country. violence against protesters continues in other arab countries like bahrain and government while the coalition forces are

only focusing on libya steven lemon had some to say about that he's a chicago based radio host of a political talk show he says it's because the u.s. only acts on its political interests but it really is very attention to the callers america supports them or a key member or a you support circle resident star in yemen but just our support because they are speed is very ironic because around two thousand and three. establish were approaching what washington relations were firing here in meetings with jewish officials including secretary of state clinton who expressed very warm regards for. a decently perceiving him because what's going on out of this point many months to live it's. not tearing each one flake america undertakes it is not just out that it isn't when we are two weeks and being and this is playing months it's

really just good spirit gets to pick out your troop deployments and there's the massaging of public opinion in america hearing the u.s. public premiere a good way to to to to call it war illegally this is needed a gracious against another country but even american people have to be convinced this humanitarian intervention british forces joined the action in libya from the very beginning it's submarines and fighter jets carried out multiple strikes against gadhafi forces you're a correspondent or emmet reports on what the u.k. public think about being involved in another conflict. what we heard before this started and what has actually happened now there's quite a big difference both in what actually happens and in in the perception of that a no fly zone sounds to your man on the street like a relative you know you key thing it just sounds like people won't be allowed to take it take off planes but of course i think what people didn't fully understand

was that in order to stop planes taking off from would actually have to shoot them down and certainly what we've seen so far in this military intervention and we should remember this is only just the beginning is one hundred cruise missiles fired at the u.s. and dropped conventional bombs on libya the u.k. alone they have missiles launched from submarines which are currently stationed off the coast of libya and we've also seen bombing from the sky from tornado jets which were flown all the way from the u.k. people are staying on the street why are we going to libya when we're not going to all the places that are seeing large scale civilian casualties caused by governments and civil war we're seeing a lot of casualties thousands of casualties in the ivory coast where of course the main export is not spoiled but in fact. and there are those also been extremely serious situation going on in some years in somalia and the situation continues that's very volatile again no intervention from from the u.k. or from the u.s.

and of course given the general economic backdrop that we see here people are talking a lot about the cost of war they have heard their government saying repeatedly over a series of months we have got no money we've got no money for pensions we've got no money for public sector wages for higher education the cost of which is going up by by three fold and yet the government has seemed to be willing to get involved and yes you know the war seemingly at the drop perhaps even off the defense cuts would be made in the u.k. william hague the foreign minister has come out and said that there will still be there have been u.k. will still have the full theologists military capability and the world's richest people are also worried about what's become known as mission creep happen. in iraq it happened in afghanistan two wars in which pretty streets were involved over a long period of time again it was agreed that what would happen was that treats would go in to establish stability and to ensure the equal just power and arguably that hasn't happened yet in either of these countries so there is definitely

a worry that we will go to libya and start military intervention that i'm just not not be able to leave for a period of years there is certainly a fear here in the u.k. that this is just the beginning of this intervention ati's lorimer at london were perhaps the closest the storable comparison to what's happening in libya is the nato campaign of yugoslavia twelve years ago the bombing then also launched with the aim of protecting civilians in this case the course of a minority and it resulted in hundreds of civilian deaths but we did manage to force the withdrawal of yugoslav forces from kosovo nevertheless balkans expert michael gast and told me humanitarian missions are rarely justified. they only justify themselves in terms of their ability to achieve the aims of the intervenors which are always to t.g. designs or position themselves into occupation positions in strategically vital areas of the world so in terms of how they benefit the local population the answer is not at all in fact they are always very negative afghanistan in one thousand

nine hundred ninety three vention lane led to a thirty years and still ongoing instability in one nine hundred ninety nine still a fake state of desperate poverty and desperate crime in all that entire area iraq we know another nightmare we should remember that the reason lucian calls for dialogue it requires two sides both to be around in order to engage in that dialogue so it shouldn't be about getting rid of colonel gadhafi we needed dialogue we needed ceasefire we've got bombs instead the bombs are not necessary for the peace what we need is a cease fire for the peace and that really should be the aim of this mission to the extent that it is not able to vision the mission has now become compromised and should be stopped as soon as possible. well and bring you up to date on the latest developments in libya tonight in the last few hours the head of the country's armed forces says that he's ordered all units to observe an immediate cease fire but heavy anti-aircraft fire is still being heard over the camp at all tripoli is comes

on day two of an international bombing campaign over the country to enforce a no fly zone to protect civilians from colonel gadhafi forces the multinational coalition says it is following the u.n. resolution by carrying out military strikes in libya but earlier the arab league criticized the attacks by the u.s. u.k. and france because they've called civilian deaths russia's also called on international troops to end what he described as an indiscriminate use of force meanwhile the allies know claim they are the face of the established a no fly zone over libya but gadhafi for his part out on long war against the international coalition and libyan officials say at least sixty four people have been killed than one hundred fifty wounded in the allied assault this reminder for you can start today with all the events unfolding minute by minute in libya on our twitter and facebook pages also at r.t. dot com and a you tube. and

also on those sites you can get the latest about japan there were folks and now works and i don't think ashima nuclear plant crews have a bit of good news they say they have managed to attach power cables to to the damaged reactors they say could be an important breakthrough in efforts to prevent a catastrophe at the synonyme hit facility i have a benefit for r.t. as the latest. even though they have attached power cables to two reactors reactors one and two there's no guarantee the cooling systems will actually work because they feel the electronics inside those cooling comes and they have been damaged in the earth and are all the ensuing explosions of those reactors and so what they're

doing is not just turning on extra t. just yet because they feel if they do it could malfunction even more in the pants made so living very wary before starting a power supposed plant because they really need those plants to work and that's the only realistic way they're going to get the situation under control and the temperatures inside the reactors down what they're doing in the meantime let's still spraying water into the reactors so get our department thirteen hours straight two thousand tons of water into reactor number three but there's only so much that can do because already we've heard that the pressure inside reactor number three is increasing against are they going to have to vent it which means a controlled release of steam but with that release of steam is the escape or radiate radioactive substances as well now as to the radiation in the regions around the bush we now know that there have been trace the radioactive substances radioactive iodine in fact found in the water systems in and they five neighboring

prefectures including in tokyo even says traces of radioactive i mean it's not considered harmful if ingested just yet but will bring is that it's there it wasn't there before this disaster happened in fukushima there radiation levels inside the water are considered to be harmful what's more it's also spread to food products from the region to taiwan it's just reported that some imported fiber beans from japan do contain traces of radiation as well so it's a bit of a wind development there and the anxiety now is regarding this radiation is now spreading to anger on the streets because today five hundred antinuclear protesters joined demonstration and your antiwar demonstration in tokyo demonstrating against you. and how they're holding placards calling for the end of nuclear power in japan they're unlikely to have that demand met but the fukushima plant once the situation is under control will certainly be closed because it's being rendered useless now following you said the spring of watching inside the reactor it's it's

a rescue operation is still ongoing but it's more of a salvage operation a search operation now because they know obviously the chances of finding people alive are pretty slim that means nine days since the earthquake and tsunami struck out he said that no big hand was being dubbed a miracle an eight year old woman and a sixteen year old boy were found alive amongst the rubble in a town in the reality treat that jerk called ishinomaki which was one of the worst hit areas at least two people have been found alive and it's been dubbed a miracle because normally with these sort of things the search and rescue operations following natural disasters like earth both is considered after seventy two hours pretty unlikely to find the line by the sense of i will rate up to ninety six hours these people survived for more than double that amount and that was even unseasonably wintry conditions. for bennett with the latest from the area one world renowned earthquake expert told us at r.t. why japan failed to predict the sheer size of what turned out to be the most

powerful earthquake in its history before it happened. so for the several negative factors coincided first the japanese are perhaps best equipped in the world against earthquakes is their living on a continuous seismic hotbed they predicted an earthquake but nobody expected a magnitude and nine which is unique you normally magnitude eight as corker just the difference between eight and nine is a logarithmic scale each digit increment means a ten time increase of energy so you played a mean joke with them before the eleventh march quake a quake on the ninth of march in the same zone was considerably weaker only seven point seven which is still big. they decided the forecast had been fulfilled and they relaxed a much stronger quake occurred soon afterwards. so really enlightening interview that when you can find out what other devastating surprises nature could be keeping up its sleeve for the years ahead we got the full

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